The goal of the conference is to explore the variety of ways in which innovative activities were carried out in the electrical industry from its pioneering phase in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. While the electrical industry (including electro-metallurgy, electro-chemistry, and the...

CofFEE announces the Creating a Culture of Full Employment Conference which will incorporate the 7th Path to Full Employment Conference and the 12th National Conference on Unemployment. It will be staged in Newcastle over two days - Thursday, December 8 and Friday, December 9, 2005. Pencil in...

Possible Paper Topics Include: Time Use Among Specific Groups – parent time with children including comparisons by family structure; time use among the elderly Time Use and Work – hours of work; nonstandard work arrangements; measurement of nonmarket work; volunteer activity; leisure time...

Organized by the SEASREP Foundation, with support from the Toyota Foundation and Japan Foundation, the conference provides an occasion for SEASREP not merely to showcase its achievements over the years, but position itself as a regional institution and network in the next decade. The conference...

Topics will be: Corporate governance financing and performance Public debt management Financial Intermediation and Competition Credit Risk, Basel “ 2” and impact on SMI Venture capital, IPOs, and performance Microfinance, finance and ethics and corporate social responsibility Physics and...

Die Bundesbank veranstaltet einen Workshop zum Thema "Forschung zu Finanzstabilität mit Hilfe von Bankdaten der Bundesbank". Die Zielgruppe des Workshops sind alle Forscher, die mit Bankdaten der Bundesbank arbeiten. Die Deutsche Bundesbank verfolgt mit dem Workshop das Ziel, den Austausch der...

This workshop is targeted at recent theoretical as well as empirical contributions with specific analyses of employment protection legislation (EPL) or severance payments. We are particularly interested in papers that investigate the economic consequences as well as determinants of EPL and refer...

The workshops aims at stimulating the interdisciplinary discussion between international scholars in the field of Law and Economics. Papers from all areas of Law and Economics are welcome. Younger researchers from France and Germany are especially encouraged to present their work in front of...

The wide range of topics to be covered by the studies may include but is not limited by: a) Globalization and the chronic poor b) ‘Corporate globalization’ and the poor. c) Threshold and externality effects of globalization and dynamics of ‘between-country inequality’ e) Global economic...